Desperate, yet no longer alone after that day, because we'd found each other.

What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.

District 12: Where you can starve to death in safety.

The star-crossed lovers

Hope, it is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective, a lot of hope is dangerous.

My nightmares are usually about losing you. I'm okay once I realize you're here.

So it's you and a syringe against the Capitol? See, this is why no one lets you make the plans.

Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.

It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.

I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever.

To this day, I can never shake the connection between this boy, Peeta Mellark, and the bread that gave me hope, and the dandelion that reminded me that I was not doomed.

Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.

Adventure is a way of worthy life.

There must be more to life than having everything.

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

I eat strategically. If I know I'm having a big Chinese banquet tomorrow, I'm not eating a big dinner tonight, and I'm not having breakfast.

The measure of love is to love without measure. - attributed to Saint Augustine

Literature, fiction, poetry, whatever, makes justice in the world. That's why it almost always has to be on the side of the underdog.

Well, better expelled and able to defend yourselves than sitting safely in school without a clue," said Sirius.

Ill husbandry braggeth To go with the best: Good husbandry baggeth Up gold in his chest.

A man I respected very early in my career told me, 'If you wanna truly be good at this, you have to learn to hate.'